Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The New Order Changeth (But Not Enough)!!

I will freely admit that much of this is attributable to nostalgia, that this was the first time I had been buying comics on my own and this was the first "the old order changeth" of that period.

But, in my opinion, this is the best Avengers line-up EVER:

Of course, that line-up lasted exactly 4 panels, as by the end of the issue...

...Zombie Wonder Man showed up!!

Seriously, he should go back to being Zombie Wonder Man!!

Anyway, then the Whizzer started hanging around for awhile..

...and whenever the team ran up against someone too tough...

...the Collector would pull Thor out of time to come and help them!

Then the real Guardians Of The Galaxy showed up...

...and Jocasta started hangin' with them...


...and Ms. Marvel turned up and stuck around...

...and the return of Hawkeye merited it's own (gorgeous) cover...

...and a bunch of other former Avengers showed up, like Hercules and Natasha and T'Challa and Moondragon (boo!)...

...AND THEY ALL DIED!!

Don't worry, they all got better...

...and then the government showed up, and fired all of them except 7, and that line-up changed before the end of the issue, and...

I'm just saying, today's line-ups are too stable. The best Avengers line-ups are the flexible ones, with lots of churning and changes and growing and adapting and leaving and...

From various issues Avengers #151-181 (1976-1979)

3 comments:

SF said...

Geez, I don't know who David Wenzel is, but it's got to be a hard gig being penciller on the Avengers between George Perez and John Byrne.

Wayne Allen Sallee said...

Was that the story about that guy Michael who kills them all? And Vancde Astro sees himself as a little kid?

snell said...

Wayne--yup.